The Long Goodnight

 
by Tyler Tork
Book Cover: The Long Goodnight
Part of the The Goodnight Agency series:
Editions:ebook, Paperback
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We’re not troublemakers. We’re trouble finders.

Step into a world where shadows hold secrets and cryptids rule the night. Ruby's dream of exhilarating adventures takes a spine-chilling twist when she becomes an apprentice at The Goodnight Agency. But the supernatural underworld she thought she knew proves far more treacherous—and thrilling—than she ever imagined.

Goodnight is a hub for all things enigmatic and bizarre, a haven for creatures straight out of tabloid tales. Yet, as Ruby soon learns, mysteries are not merely stories. When an innocent old woman narrowly escapes murder, Ruby becomes a suspect .

Amidst the chaos, Ruby finds herself entangled with the Skohlars, a clandestine race of intelligent rats, entrusted with secrets potent enough to reshape reality itself. And as if that's not enough, a group of kidnapped Sasquatches unravels a feud among The Scene's own Guardians, leaving the agency in a perilous struggle.

The Long Goodnight is a pulse-pounding adventure where friendships are tested, mythical creatures come to life, and the line between reality and fantasy blurs.

Published:
Publisher: Mad Cat
Genres:
Fantasy, YA
Tags:
fantasy books, magical realism

About the Author

Tyler Tork

Techie guy by day, crime fighter by night. But when crime is slow, as it often is in his quiet hometown of Plymouth, Minnesota, Tyler puts away the mask, cape, and ocelot, and finds a corner to scribble in. The victim of a dark destiny, he whirls through life with a set of shaky assumptions and a mug of rapidly-cooling java. Bewildered, scattered, querulous (some say curmudgeonly), he nonetheless attempts to entertain and inform. Someday, his alien masters will return for him. Until then, buy his books.

On his blog at tylertork.com, he answers your questions about anything. Answers are not guaranteed to be correct or useful, but hopefully are entertaining.

Other Books By Tyler Tork

Stand-Alone Books

Cover: The Deep End
The Deep End

Series: The Goodnight Agency

Book Cover: The Goodnight Agency
The Goodnight Agency
Book Cover: The Long Goodnight
The Long Goodnight

Little Red Wraith

 
by Lindsay Flanagan
Book Cover: Little Red Wraith
Part of the The Miadien Chronicles series:
  • Little Red Wraith
Editions:ebook, Paperback
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A tyrannical queen. A rising rebellion. A choice that will change everything.

All Anna wants is to grieve her sister in peace. But peace is the last thing she’ll get. After the tragic accident shatters her world, her life takes an even darker turn when her father is imprisoned in the castle and her mother is summoned by the ruthless queen. Terrified of losing what’s left of her family, Anna demands to go with them, despite the dangerous path ahead. As a shapeshifter who can’t transform, she’s already a target under the queen’s brutal laws—and the castle is the last place she wants to be.

Enter Redford, her sister’s former fiancé, with an offer she can’t ignore—join the Rising, a rebel force determined to tear down the queen’s rule. Redford promises refuge, but when a ghost from Anna’s past shows up with a twisted opportunity to serve the queen, the lines between right and wrong begin to blur.

Anna faces an impossible choice—join the Rising as their poison maker or stay at the castle and create a weapon so monstrous, it could change the kingdom forever.

Published:
Publisher: Mad Cat
Genres:
Fantasy, YA
Tags:
fantasy books

About the Author

Lindsay Flanagan

Lindsay Flanagan is an author, editor, photographer, concert junkie, and mom. She writes young adult and middle-grade fantasy, edits for an award-winning editing company and small presses, and assists literary agents at a children’s literary agency. She also writes creative nonfiction and poetry, which can be found at lindsayflanaganselleanda.com. Her preferred subject for photography is the majestic mountains of Utah, where she was born and raised and still makes her home with her husband and two daughters.

The Goodnight Agency

 
by Tyler Tork
Book Cover: The Goodnight Agency
Part of the The Goodnight Agency series:
Editions:ebook, Paperback
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Sometimes, you just have to do things yourself....IF you don't get eaten by an invisible monster first

Sixteen-year-old Ruby Park is a handful. With her parents in prison, she’s tossed between her relatives like a hot potato, finally ending up with her weird uncle, Simon Goodnight. Determined to get along with her last relative who can stand her and isn’t locked up, Ruby nonetheless can’t resist snooping into her uncle’s mysterious business and its anonymous clients. Is it a detective agency, or…?

Ruby soon learns those clients are bizarre creatures who can’t go out in public to do their own business. She thought she was a misfit, but these people make her look downright normal by comparison. And hey, for the first time ever, she can actually be helpful!

She should’ve known this couldn’t last, though. When Simon is arrested for murder, it’s up to her and her crew of oddball friends and minions to clear her uncle’s name, and do it faster than a caffeinated cheetah, or her newfound happy home will go up in smoke.

But the deeper she digs, the more complications she uncovers. Can she rescue Simon while keeping his clients’ secrets, and not start a war or become a monster’s snack? With the help of her friends, a bit of snark, a lot of wit, and a crusader’s sense of justice, Ruby’s madcap navigation of these rocky waters will leave you grinning from ear to ear.
Published:
Publisher: Mad Cat
Genres:
Fantasy, Supernatural
Tags:
fantasy books, paranormal mystery books

About the Author

Tyler Tork

Techie guy by day, crime fighter by night. But when crime is slow, as it often is in his quiet hometown of Plymouth, Minnesota, Tyler puts away the mask, cape, and ocelot, and finds a corner to scribble in. The victim of a dark destiny, he whirls through life with a set of shaky assumptions and a mug of rapidly-cooling java. Bewildered, scattered, querulous (some say curmudgeonly), he nonetheless attempts to entertain and inform. Someday, his alien masters will return for him. Until then, buy his books.

On his blog at tylertork.com, he answers your questions about anything. Answers are not guaranteed to be correct or useful, but hopefully are entertaining.

Other Books By Tyler Tork

Stand-Alone Books

Cover: The Deep End
The Deep End

Series: The Goodnight Agency

Book Cover: The Goodnight Agency
The Goodnight Agency
Book Cover: The Long Goodnight
The Long Goodnight

Sacred Alarm Clock

 
by John T. Biggs
Book Cover: Sacred Alarm Clock
Editions:ebook, Hardcover, Paperback
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White man’s power runs through copper wires. When the wire is cut, their clocks all stop, Geronimo whispers to Wylie E. Chatto, a mentally challenged young Apache man. Soon, Chatto smells rosemary—the scent of complicated things, of trouble brewing on an electric stove.

Electricity is the first to go. Then gasoline. Then law and order.

The Sacred Alarm Clock doesn’t tick. It rides in on an influenza strain called New Flu. It starts with nausea but soon goes to the brain and puts the victim into a Spanish Inquisition frame of mind.

Civilization‘s last hope lies in the hands of people who never quite fit into the old world. People like Chatto, who saw the whole thing coming in a vision; Mona and Chris, star-crossed lovers hiking across a ravaged countryside in search of civilization; Karma and Joseph, a pair of outcast teenagers who find themselves at odds with a city full of wild dogs and crazy people; and Mary, who forages for food and ammunition across a derelict urban landscape while avoiding gangs intent on her rape and murder. (266 pages)

Published:
Publisher: Rogue River
Genres:
Fantasy, Literary
Tags:
fantasy books, literary fiction

About the Author

John T. Biggs

Everything John T. Biggs writes is so full of Oklahoma that once you read it, you'll never get the red dirt stains washed out of your mind. The tribes play a significant role. No authentic discussion of the state is possible without them. Traditional Native American legends are reworked and set in the modern era, the way oral historians always intended. One of John's stories, "Boy Witch" took grand prize in the 80th annual Writer's Digest Competition in 2011. Another won third prize in the 2011 Lorian Hemingway short story contest. Eighty of his short stories have been published in one form or another, along with several of his novels.

Other Books By John T. Biggs

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